“Hwuuu…”

 

The distant sound of someone sobbing echoed familiarly.

 

Was a banshee crying again?

 

The voices that sounded were quite a bit different from one, though.

 

“Hwuuuuu…”

 

“You can stop.”

 

Oh, was it just a dream?

 

A dark room slowly became clearer. I’d seen this room before.

 

As the darkness surrounding me gradually ebbed away, I saw a woman crying, standing in front of a balcony and rubbing the heel of her palm against her chest. A man was moving closer to her.

 

I couldn’t see their faces, but a strange sense of familiarity washed over me. The thought of having met this couple somewhere else passed me by.

 

Oh, that’s right. I had had a dream like this once before.

 

Yes, in another place, at another time, that woman had been smiling wickedly, and that man…

 

“Isn’t it time you stopped with the bad acting?”

 

The woman quit her wailing. “What if I don’t want to?”

 

“Ah, you’re really driving me crazy.”

 

“As expected, it doesn’t work on you,” I couldn’t see it, but I could feel the woman sneering. “You’re so annoying, you know that, right?”

 

The sadness ailing her vanished in an instant, something menacing gracing her features instead. I still couldn’t see what she looked like, but I felt the aggression dripping from her echoing and settling in my bones.

 

The man looming over her seemed to be very angry. “You turned the court banquet into a damn circus show. Have you no shame?”

 

“That girl was asking for it. What did you want me to do?”

 

“Did you fight with her just cause she asked you a question? Why don’t you pick a fight with the entire world then?”

 

“You weren’t even there, so what do you know? Right, it must’ve been your little sister that told you. Of course, she must have chosen her side again. She always does.”

 

The woman gave a bitter laugh, the air turning sullen.

 

“Watch your mouth.”

 

“Oh, don’t deny it, you know it’s true. And what if I don’t watch my mouth? Will you hit me? Don’t even joke around, because we both know you won’t.”

 

I was starting to worry a little for the woman.

 

She was deliberately targeting her opponent’s weak spots, his rage already reaching its breaking point. The harsh breaths he took was the only sound that could be heard in this dark and empty room.

 

“You’re such a bad f**king girl.”

 

“And you’re so handsome,” she swooned, ridicule but also honesty honeying her sweet voice.

 

“Consider it an honor then, if you’re willing to admit it.”

 

“Hah! An honor? You?”

 

“Anything you’re dissatisfied with? Tell me, since I’m your so-called husband.”

 

“I’m dissatisfied with your existence itself.”

 

with your existence, you wicked

 

The mood was strange.

 

but they couldn’t take their eyes off one

 

if one of them would turn around any minute now, storming out of the door if not taking swings at each other before that. Instead, it was the distance between them that was dwindling, something I couldn’t quite put my finger on warming up

 

almost chest to chest

 

my appearance you’re at least not dissatisfied with, my

 

It just came out like that, it didn’t mean anything. There are a

 

are you doing here, then? Hurry up and

 

“You’re a damn j*rk.”

 

closer, as if there was still space

 

you don’t participate

 

“Hell no!”

 

“Then I won’t either!”

 

hair and dug her nails into the back of his neck, pulling him close to her. There was nothing separating

 

twice her

 

were, and why I was here, as

 

a while now, and the sounds of heavy breaths and desperate kissing filled the dark chamber. The only source of light came from the moon raining down on the couple clutching

 

yet macabre. Sad and hopeless and

 

eyes

 

I was only a ghost in this dream, after all. Someone from the outside looking in. I wasn’t

 

that woman smiled at me—a meaningless,

 

chest broke and smashed into pieces. The face I hadn’t been able to

 

The woman was me.

 

that’s you…

 

Then, that man is…

 

make sense of it, but it was as if someone had turned

 

the room plunged into darkness. The man and the woman vanished and I lost myself to the shadows

 

***

 

white shining right into my eyes had me twitching, trying to

 

came to me was the heavy feeling in my head. I tried to lift my hand, but it dropped down to

 

am I? Who got me here? What happened at the

 

I turned my

 

I wanted to cry.

 

and lying next to me, looking like he hadn’t just gone through

 

in, my eyes leaving

 

He looked miserable, though.

 

run my fingers through his bangs, the movement taking everything out of me, but my want

 

a whisper in the soft breeze. “Why didn’t

 

thinking of anything. It felt like it didn’t really matter, none

 

done in this life, all of it flashed before my eyes, like a movie stuck on repeat

 

my own body thinking about it

 

him, the voice I answered him with was low and hoarse as well, a whisper I breathed

 

“What…?”

 

All I was, was an illusion. Once it broke, everyone changed. It’s always been

 

very well, something that had

 

of my sniveling and groveling and breaking down, when I

 

been like

 

“Always.”

 

in his jaw and his lips curled into a mean snarl. I knew it wasn’t me he was directing it at. “Were all the

 

I’m already in a situation where I’m hated

 

his eye with my numb finger, gently at first until I pressed hard on the bone of his cheek, wondering

 

Izek still kept on gazing at me with that

 

could embrace me fully, enveloping me in his

 

my head in the juncture where his shoulder and neck met, breathing in his masculine

 

why my head felt

 

but I

 

me like that. Because it’s not your fault. It’s not always all about you, you

 

arrogant man, I

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